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  • February 4, 2018 at 1:33 pm #415883

    Amy Fox
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    I’ve just noticed that my multilocations has 3 countries listed.

    United Kingdom with a total listing of 8000 listings.
    Ireland with 1 listing.
    Isle of Man with 2 listings.

    Could this be causing my Yoast sitemap to be listing locations and 404 error pages?

    I’ve not added these locations myself and no idea how they ended up in the multilocation section, or does adding listings auto add locations in there?

    February 4, 2018 at 2:36 pm #415892

    Amy Fox
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    I think I understand now, all the locations link to my location page, they showed as 404 originally due to me not setting the location page up.

    They now link to my location page and don’t show as a 404 error.

    The location/category ones link and show the categories listed at that location but my location/ just link to a blank location page.

    What are the locations for when they only link to blank pages? Or is it all to do with Google and the way it crawls my website.

    Thanks.

    February 4, 2018 at 2:47 pm #415895

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    now that the GD Permalinks are set, the vast majority of the pages are no longer 404.

    locations, as in the locations listed in the Multilocations -> Manage Locations, are added when a listing is added in a new area/location. I did a check myself to see that there was indeed a listing in Isle of Man. So someone added a listing there at some point in time, resulting in that location being added.

    there is only one ‘technical issue’ that I see (though I may have missed one, so let us know if you see something) and it is that some URLs are being submitted without a slug. The developers will check on this when they get back into the office after the weekend.

    Let us know if you see anything else or have more questions

    🙂

    February 4, 2018 at 3:14 pm #415898

    Amy Fox
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    OK thanks, I’ve not noticed that one and will keep checking in on the forum to see when they reply.

    I’m guessing my website has so many ‘internal link’s’ due to it having so many pages/listings plus all the pages it will regard as location pages.

    All pages link to the homepage plus to my cpt’s.

    February 4, 2018 at 3:18 pm #415901

    Alex Rollin
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    Yes, there are many many thousands of links you probably won’t use, but they help google cross reference the data on your site.

    February 4, 2018 at 3:20 pm #415903

    Amy Fox
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    Regarding the location manager, I now understand how the locations get there and now that they get put into the sitemap.

    What I don’t understand is that it lists 8000 in the UK when our website has just over 4000 listing in total.

    4000 listings should be 4000 location listings and not 8000?

    When we started the site we added all listings under the ‘places’ cpt but I exported all that data and broke it down into new cpt’s.

    We stopped using ‘places’ could the multilocation part have each location entered twice?

    Could that also explain why some don’t have slugs as they are old locations and actually have no listing for them?

    February 4, 2018 at 3:22 pm #415907

    Alex Rollin
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    Thank you for the background about the listings. When the developers take a look they will keep that in mind. I have not heard of that happening before, but they will need to take a look to suss out the issue.

    February 5, 2018 at 5:47 am #415974

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    Now that your GD Permalinks are in place, and Yoast has recreated the sitemap, the URL errors I was seeing are fixed up.

    You can add widgets to your GD Home page so that URLs like this show your listings:

    http://www.mydirectory.com/location/united-kingdom/carmarthenshire/rhandirmwyn/

    This is a location page, and it uses the widget settings of the GD Home page:

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#home

    Let us know if you have more questions 🙂

    February 5, 2018 at 5:49 am #415975

    Alex Rollin
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    February 5, 2018 at 11:19 am #416005

    Amy Fox
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    February 5, 2018 at 11:42 am #416008

    Alex Rollin
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    If you are using Yoast, then use Yoast.

    Otherwise, yes, you can use GD, but first there is a setting to Override Yoast at GD > Titles and Metas.

    Then you can use GD to set titles and metas.

    February 5, 2018 at 11:50 am #416014

    Amy Fox
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    So it’s basically go through all the location pages and do it individually?

    Thanks for the fast reply.

    We use yoast for the SEO.

    February 5, 2018 at 12:07 pm #416017

    Alex Rollin
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    No, not at all, Yoast has settings that duplicate what GD Offers, so it is one or the other.

    February 5, 2018 at 12:36 pm #416020

    Amy Fox
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    No it was me confusing myself, I only need to do the SEO on the ‘location’ page as all the multilocation pages load in that.

    I was convinced I had to do the SEO for all 8k pages it has made.

    I’m still struggling to understand why under the multilocation tool it has a section for the UK saying

    1000 locations
    8000 listings

    Our website only has 4000 listings on it, not exact numbers but close enough so you can see what I mean.

    Thanks again.

    February 5, 2018 at 1:16 pm #416029

    Alex Rollin
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    Each listing generates several links, for categories and locations, and the listing itself can be seen in several places (home, location, and category pages), so these account for the links.

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